Buba Galadima, a chieftain of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), and close ally of the 2023 presidential candidate of the party, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, has boasted that the party would decide who would win the 2027 presidential election.
Speaking as a guest on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Monday, Galadima accused the President Bola Tinubu presidency of treating Kwankwaso and the NNPP badly in Kano by backing Emir Aminu Ado-Bayero, despite his removal by Governor Abba Kabir.
Galadima also ruled out the possibility of Kwankwaso joining forces with Tinubu to win a re-election in 2027.
Galadima said Kwankwaso has not told him that he would back the All Progressives Congress (APC) or Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.
“Let anybody come out and tell me that he met Kwankwaso and he canvassed or persuaded him or coerced him to join the APC. I assume if anybody talks to him about that, I ought to know. He is the strongest political Iroko in this country today because he dared the APC and defeated them at their game in Kano,” he said.
“How can a Kwankwaso be a friend of the APC with what they are doing to us in Kano? Appointing two emirs in one town? There is a Federal Government emir and a state emir. Who’s got the responsibility to appoint emirs and pay them their salaries? They have their emirs. They have not less than 40 pickup vehicles filled with mobile police guarding the Emir (Ado Bayero). In some localities in Kano, they are killing people and taking their handsets, and the police are tied down. Are they not ashamed?” he asked.
Galadima said a federal high court has no business delivering a judgment in a chieftaincy matter.
“In the first place, was it not Tinubu who canvassed for Sanusi to become emir? Let him come out and tell me that he didn’t, and I will give him instances,” he said.
The NNPP chieftain claimed the Federal Government is using the police and other security agencies to destabilise Kano.
According to Galadima, the Federal Government is keeping Emir Bayero because they think he would help them in the 2027 election but said no Kano emir has ever determined the victory of a Nigerian president.
